Max Verstappen at the Nurburgring 24 Hours! | The Car Podcast #88
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What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
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Hello and welcome to the Car Podcast with Chris Harris and his little friends. All of whom have been squabbling extensively before this recording started. So we're all a little bit sweaty under the armpits and ready to go. This is episode 88. Why is 88 significant? Because it's the speed at which the DeLorean... becomes a time machine, isn't it?
Yeah.
Why was 88 chosen? I've done some research on this. Oh, wow. My factoid today.
What good news or car-related activities did we experience this week?
I thought it had some significant meaning in mathematics or the space-time continuum. Turns out that is a load of horse testicles. The reality is this. There's two reasons. First of all, the speedometer of the US spec DeLorean went to 85 miles an hour. So they needed a speed a bit beyond the maximum. So going beyond the last number on the speedometer is what you always used to aim for when you were a kid. And 88, the alliterative, what's the equivalent of number alliteration? Whatever. Two eights looks better than 87. So they chose 88 because it sounded faster and it looked faster and it went off the dial. There you go. Did you know that? You probably did.
Also, when Jaguar won Le Mans, come back and won Le Mans, they won 88.
What is a car errands day and why is it enjoyable?
88 was their first modern win. Yes. And 85 on the Speedo was because there wasn't some federal law that you couldn't have a Speedo It went higher than that because that would be too encouraging when, for smog and other oil crisis reasons, 55 was generally the speed limit.
And 88 was the year in which the greatest driver who's ever driven a Formula One car won his first world championship. What, Prost? Alan Prost. No, that was the year he didn't win.
Is that the year that Santa cheated?
No, that was the year that Senna saw God as he passed, as he literally crossed the start-finish line in Suzuka and he said, I had a vision. I saw, I visualized God. He said that.
Which ugly duckling cars have transformed into desirable models?
He saw God as he literally passed the...
Is he still talking?
Some of you might have realised who are watching this.
What is the 2CG segment featuring Car & Classic?
For those of you that aren't watching this, Manish is about three bottles into Whispering Angels. That's not true.
It's a warm day in London. It's half to six o'clock. Come on.
Right, so here we go. We're starting with this podcast. This is a lengthy agenda. We're not going to get through all of these, but we'll start off with, this is a good one. Is a driverless car still a car? I'm going to start with Chris. I might be a touch angry Cooper. Let's go. No, it isn't.
What music did we discuss in this episode?
There we go.
Neil, what do you think?
Yes, it is. Oh, no, it's not. Manish, what do you think? Yes, it is. For fuck's sake. I'm on the wrong podcast. Okay, we're going to stop there. We're going to allow Chris Cooper to explain why he's wrong.
Why you're wrong.
Okay, carry on.
Because the whole point of a car is his interaction with the person driving it. And you take away the car, it's just a contraption that conveys two or three or four people, and that could be anything. It's lost its soul. It's lost its meaning and connection with us. A driverless car without a driver is just like something in Madame Tussauds. Looks like the real thing, isn't the real thing.
Okay, I like the way you've explained it. I'm not sure how quite it works within the English language, but there we go. Neil Clifford. I think it is.
Obviously, it's not as good a car. I suppose that's really what we're... You know, we obviously like to sit in cars and drive them, but I think... I think cars can be all sorts of things. Cars can be shit cars, long cars, bad cars, good cars, expensive cars, poor, cheap cars, cars in museums, cars that have never been driven forever. I think this is like the debate of, I don't know, when my brothers were in the 50s all arguing about why trains aren't trains because they're not fucking steam trains.
Oh, that's a really good one, because I've just been entered into that world, and all the people in steam trains, if they see a diesel even now, they're going to love rocks in it.
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Chapters
8 chapters
1
What is the main topic discussed in this episode?
0:00–0:02
2
Is a driverless car still considered a car?
0:02–0:21
3
What happened with Max Verstappen at the Nurburgring 24 Hours?
0:21–1:03
4
What good news or car-related activities did we experience this week?
1:03–1:46
5
What is a car errands day and why is it enjoyable?
1:46–2:36
6
Which ugly duckling cars have transformed into desirable models?
2:36–2:44
7
What is the 2CG segment featuring Car & Classic?
2:44–3:14
8
What music did we discuss in this episode?
3:14–1:07:54
Speakers
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